The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has finalised a list of 40 star campaigners for the upcoming civic polls. Starting with its top brass, AAP supremo Arvind Kejriwal will kick off the campaign on March 31 with a public meeting in Burari which is a stronghold of Purvanchali voters
Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia, Transport and Health Minister Satyendra Jain, labour Minister Gopal Rai, Water Minister Kapil Mishra and leader of Opposition in Punjab Assembly HS Phoolka will also be seen during the campaigns for the AAP ahead of the elections. The list of the 40 campaigners has been submitted to the State Election Commission.
"Some of our star campaigners like Manish Sisodia, Sanjay Singh, Dilip Pandey, Rakhi Bidlan, Rajendra Gautam and others have already begun campaigning. CM Arvind Kejriwal will also begin his campaign from Burari onMarch 31," said a leader from the AAP.
He said the AAP is keeping its strategy for the April 23 civic polls Delhi centric.
According to AAP officials, the party which is in majority in Delhi Assembly is holding the campaign meetings ward wise.
Till now, the AAP has declared candidates for 266 out of 272 municipal wards. On Tuesday, Delhi BJP unit announced that Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Adityanath Yogi would campaign for the party in Delhi in the the civic elections. The BJP is in majority with 153 councillors in three civic bodies.
Earlier the party had submitted a list of 42 campaigners, including various Union Ministers, MPs and leaders from the party's top brass.
Post-UP elections where the BJP won with a thumping majority, the ground for the civic elections in Delhi heated up with all the parties gearing up for a tough fight.
The civic polls are going to be a triangular contest between the BJP, the Congress and the AAP. Yogendra Yadav-led Swaraj India - a splinter group of AAP - is also making its debut in the election.